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early morning Parkdale

Posted: January 11, 2023 in alleys, graffiti and street art, history, old buildings, windows and walls
Tags: alley, architecture, buildings, changes, Christina Mazzulla, Christmas, demolition, development, gables, globe, graffiti, Heather & Little, Jim Bravo, Jimmy Chiale, lanes, Lula Lumaj, mural, murals, Peter Dykhuis, Queen St. West, sculpture, stickers, storefronts, street scene, T-bonez, tibetan, Tsampa, urban ninja squadron, World Peace Monument

below: Pink faced, orange leopard spotted blast of colour…. A mural by Christina Mazzulla.

Settlement in what is now Parkdale began before 1850. In 1879 it was incorporated as a village and ten years later it became part of the city of Toronto.

below: Mural by Jim Bravo and Lula Lumaj from 2015, celebrating the history of Sunnyside Park. In the early years, part of the attraction of living in Parkdale was its proximity to Lake Ontario and such features as Sunnyside Beach and Sunnyside Amusement Park.

below: Christmas wreath on the globe outside Parkdale Library. This is the World Peace Monument, a globe surrounding a fountain. It was designed by Peter Dykhuis and fabricated in copper and bronze by Heather & Little in 2005. The metal sculpture has aged well but as we should all know by now, the city does not do water features well (i.e. I’ve never seen a fountain there; have you?)

In July 2022, City council adopted the Parkdale Main Street Historic District Plan. It covers Queen Street from Dufferin west to Jameson/Macdonell including this block of three buildings. It hopes to preserve many of the two and three storey brick buildings that line Queen Street and in turn, the character of the area.

below: Map of proposed Parkdale Main Street HDP. This map was found on a City website where you can also find other information about the project if you want.

below: Southeast corner of Queen and Dunn

below: A happy black and white bear to greet you

below: And a cow in a tea cup

below: Looking south on Lansdowne. Note the car blocking the bus stop.

below: Someone’s happy this morning

below: Looking south on Noble towards Queen

below: Northeast corner of Brock and Queen

below: “No Justice No Development” in the window of this former store.

below: Row houses. Each house shares a gable, or a peak, with one beside. Gables were very common in Toronto architecture, especially in the Victorian era, but in those houses each had its own gable. As people have decorated their houses, the resulting mix of colours, materials, and textures forms its own picture. This is not unique to this street – there are many other places in Toronto where homes with shared gables (both semis and rows) have been renovated such that the two halves look very different.

below: Bay and gable houses

below: Parkdale has always had a mix of many different building styles, both commercial and residential. The Tsampa Tibetan restaurant has an octagonal turret.

below: From rows of two storey houses to walls of glass and steel (on the other side of Dufferin, and the other side of the railway corridor).

below: Until a few years ago, this was Designer Fabrics store. The block of buildings was built in 1881 by J.C. Mussen, a Parkdale businessman. It was originally six storefronts. In 2020 there was a plan to build a nine storey condo on this site.

below: Like the building beside it, this grey building at 1354-356 Queen West may be demolished to make way for a condo development. There has been a long line of retail businesses in this space, from John Wanless’s hardware store in 1881 to Designer Fabrics (1950s to 2018). For more information about the building, see the website of Architectural Conservancy Ontario.

looking across Queen Street West, small tree and bus shelter on the south side, older buildings on the north side including a two storey brick building with front windows papered over

below: One person’s trash is another person’s treasure…. I had to double check just to make sure that it wasn’t real!

below: The bottom right section of a black and white mural by Jimmy Chiale.

below: “Danger – Restricted Area” says the sign

below: Nothing changes

below:Another demolition – this one is on Noble, immediately north of Queen Street West. An 8 storey condo has been proposed for this site.

below: Another building, another blue and white sign, another condo. As it turns out, this is immediately behind 1354-13656 Queen West (that grey building a few images above) which means that the 9 storey condo here will front on three streets: Queen St, Brock Ave, and Abbs St..

below: The struggle against colonialism continues

below: After a while there are just too many of these. It can get a bit disheartening. This sign sits in front of 1488 Queen Street West which is already empty and looking derelict at street level. The snails pace of development doesn’t help – neglected properties are a liability. They look horrid and contribute nothing to the neighbourhood.

below: Scan for nonsense

With thanks to @designwallah for helping to identify the artists of some of the murals in this post.

intersections – Yonge & Bloor

Posted: July 16, 2022 in intersections
Tags: Bloor, buildings, construction, downtown, hoardings, Ron Arad, Safe Hands, street, Ukraine, Ukrainian flags, Yonge

below: Looking west on Bloor towards Yonge. The pink flags fly in front of Holt Renfrew. One Bloor East with it’s curvy vertical lines and 76 storeys dominates the sky. The blue structure is the top of ‘The One’ at 1 Bloor West – It may be short now but it won’t be for long. There will be 82 storeys once it’s completed (maybe in 2023?)

A few minutes at Yonge and Bloor in mid-July

below: Hoardings on the south side of Bloor Street

below: Construction. Blank whiteness on The One as it slowly rises.

below: Hanging Ukrainian flags on the southwest corner of Yonge and Bloor.

below: South side of the intersection. At least the facade of the older buildings on Yonge Street are being preserved.

below: Looking south on Yonge from Bloor.

below: Looking east on Bloor from just west of Yonge Street. Rising 88 feet above the sidewalk is the metallic ‘Safe Hands’ sculpture by Ron Arad.

below: Anti-Putin protest, northeast corner

below: Waiting for a green light, northwest corner (more construction!)

snowy morning on Queen West

Posted: March 20, 2022 in alleys, graffiti and street art, landmarks, stores
Tags: alley, buildings, bus shelters, daisy, dolls, graffiti, Graffiti Alley, hoardings, Jeremy Lynch, jumblefacefoto, kode 905, kyara cabrera Fong, Life©️, lovebot, luvs, mannequins, murals, paint, pasteups, Poetaia, Queen West, Rush Lane, slaps, snow, Spadina, stickers, street art, streetcars, th!nk, TTC, uber5000, urban ninja squadron, visual noise, Windigo Army, winter

… and Graffiti Alley

below: Northeast corner of Spadina and Queen West

below: Mannequins on orange

below: Queen Street westbound approaching Bathurst

below: It’s always nice to see that there’s at least one Lovebot still hanging out in Graffiti Alley.

below: On the door, a jumblefacefoto collage

below: Reach out and touch someone

below: Open your eyes

below: Are you smiling? Are you happy?

below: Southeast corner, Queen & Niagara

below: Same intersection slightly later in the morning and from a slightly different angle

below: Windigo Army piece

below: A little orange character pasted to a pole; the work of kode_dipz aka Kyara Cabrera Fong

below: Because of the construction of a new condo at Richmond and Augusta there has been scaffolding in a section of Graffiti Alley. The other day some of it was being dismantled. This woman is more visible now but some of the bars remain.

below: Life©️ one eyed red daisy supersized

below: Part of UBER5000’s Toronto mural.

below: By luvs – a woman and her dog, with duplicate vision

below: A properly worn mask…..

What is creepier? Dolls or mannequins?

below: Poetaia wants to know what you’re up to, wink, wink.

below: Peeling paper makes the gold words difficult to read

below: There’s a yellow eye and possibly a blue one too?

UTSC – Scarborough Campus ‘tour’

Posted: February 6, 2022 in history, locations, old buildings, public art
Tags: buildings, Ebti Nabag, Highland Creek, Highland Hall, John Andrews, Louis Archambault, mars, Miller Lash, neptune, path, ravine, Scarborough, solar walk, U of T, UTSC

In 1913, businessman Miller Lash bought a piece of land at what is now Old Kingston Road and Morningside Avenue where the Highland Creek flows. He built a house for his family by the creek and a coach house for his collection of cars nearby. They were made of poured concrete faced with river rocks that had been collected from the creek. The two buildings remain on they site but now they are owned by the University of Toronto Scarborough campus and have been repurposed.

below: Lace curtain in a window of the Miller Lash house.

The University of Toronto acquired the land in the 1960s. Toronto architect John Andrews designed the initial two buildings, the Humanities Wing and the Science Wing, which opened for students in January 1966. Both were built at the top of the ravine.

Last week when I walked around the campus it was very quiet; very few students were present. Most of the people I saw were like me, taking pictures of the buildings, or they were out for a walk through the woods. In class learning for UTSC’s almost 13,000 students resumes tomorrow, February 7th.

below: “Tall Couple” (or “Un Grand Couple”) by Louis Archambault (1915-2003) stands beside one of Andrew’s buildings, the Humanities Wing. This metal sculpture was first on display at Expo ’67 in Montreal.

The newest building on the campus is Highland Hall located by the main entrance to the campus on Military Trail. It features large pillars, red accents, and a glass facade.

below: The west side, main entrance side, above the pillars is a large glass feature that shows a satellite image of Scarborough.

below: East side of Highland Hall. The upper level on this side features an aerial image of Scarborough in the mid 1960s when the college first opened.

below: From CONTACT Photography 2021 (on view until March 2022), is “I’m Listening” by Ebti Nabag.

below: From the Solar Walk around the campus, information about Mars.

below: … and also Neptune. The Solar Walk was supported by the Canada 150 Fund that celebrated Canada’s 150th anniversary of Confederation. The position of the planets on the walk represent to position that they were in on 1 July 1867.

below: The Highland Creek still runs through the campus. There is a new walkway that winds its way down the side of the ravine from the main part of campus to the tennis courts, athletic fields, creek trails, and park. Here the new path curves in front of the Science Wing.

below: Signs of human activity beside the trail.

below: Construction crew working on the banks of the Highland Creek.

below: Koa Hall, side view

below: The modern equivalent of the smoking lounge?

Find your uncharted territory and explore!

below: Unchartered

a Midtown circuit

Posted: March 1, 2021 in construction, locations, old buildings
Tags: Avenue Road, buildings, construction, Crosstown, davisville, Eglinton Ave., heritage, history, houses, John Davis, reflections, Starbucks, stores, T.G. Crown, Yonge St.

Yonge, Eglinton, Avenue, Chaplin.

Some habits die hard and some rules aren’t meant to be broken including the unwritten rule that a photowalk begins at a coffee shop. Was it the best. coffee. ever.? I’m not sure. It was good; it would have been even better if I’d been able to drink it inside! Also good is the fact that there are independent coffee shops that are still open and I hope that they survive (and thrive?) until the summer.

below: Long north up Yonge Street from Lola (L O L A Lola), towards Eglinton. Back to Midtown.

below: Yonge and Manor Road, looking northeast. One of the remaining Midtown buildings that date from the original development about 100 years ago. In 2016/2017 a massive list of buildings in this area was put forward as considerations for “Main Street Block” heritage designation including this one at 2075 Yonge at the corner of Manor Road East. In the resulting report, mention is made of “the three-storey scale, the glazed commercial storefronts with apartments in the upper floors, and the elaborate Tudor Revival styling typical of those dating to the interwar era in North Toronto.” I haven’t done any more research to determine if any of these buildings were actually added to the heritage register.

below: Northwest corner of Yonge and Eglinton. Still mired in Crosstown construction.

below: Walking west on Eglinton through a maze of cones and detours.

below: Looking back towards Yonge and Eglinton.

below: Consulting.

below: Part of the pedestrian detour on the north side of Eglinton takes you through Eglinton Park. This photo is from May 2020 so you can’t see the ice and snow that was there a few days ago!

below: View of the city, looking east towards Yonge Street from Eglinton Park (May 2020)

below: Decorated hoardings at Eglinton Park.

below: Rendered drawing of the future Avenue Road Crosstown station.

below: Avenue Road Crosstown station as it is now.

below: What it looked like in early May last year. Not much change is there? I was disappointed to see how Eglinton Avenue looks just the same as it has for years. At the surface it appears that there has been no progress. I’d love to be able to see what was/is happening down below as I know that the work didn’t stop for Covid.

below: No running, no diving. Sigh. Although it makes sense that there’s no diving in the shallow end, it’s just another reminder that this has been a year of “no”.

below: One of the many architectural styles on Avenue Road

below: Chaplin Crescent views

below: And back to Yonge Street – For lease, a former Starbucks at Yonge and Davisville. This is one of 25 locations in Toronto that closed at the beginning of February and one of the approximately 300 closed across Canada. This was always a busy place but maybe it was dependent on commuter traffic as it is by the Davisville subway station. The list of 25 closed Starbucks’ is heavy on mall locations and those on the heavy commuter routes.

The building started its life in 1894 as J.J. Davis’ general store and post office built on land owned by John Davis — the same Davis that gave the name to the tiny community of Davisville. When I was researching the building, I found the following three photos. First, J.J. Davis Store, ca 1900. Home of the Davisville Post Office 1894-1913.

below: The same corner, 1951. Note the old bus on Davisville (and all the people waiting to get on it!). The Chaplin Groceteria is now the Fresh Buy Market but the building is almost exactly the same 50+ years later. The hydro lines have been buried since 1951.

below: I have been trying to reconcile the information that I found online:

The J.J. Davis Store was built in 1894,
The first post office was in Davis’s store,
John Davis died in 1891.

Then I found the photo below. It was taken in 1981 and is of a building, Host Rent a Car, at the corner of Yonge & Imperial (one block north of Yonge & Davisville). The library notes: “In the 1870s, this was the site of T. G. Crown’s Grocery, Flour and Feed Store and the first Post Office in Davisville.” Davisville Village Walk, North Toronto Historical Society, 1984, p. 5. Therefore, two stores (that still exist) and two “first” post offices … and a mix-up somewhere.

I like the fact the T.G. Crown’s store was on Imperial street!

The above three black and white photos are online, from the Toronto Public Library

With many thanks to Karen for accompanying me. Sorry, no photo – totally forgot…. We’ll have to make good on our vow to walk again!

September downtown

Posted: October 15, 2020 in general Toronto, locations
Tags: banks, buildings, Canada Permanent, construction, covid, Dreaming, graffiti, Jaume Plensa, King Street, masks, people, photoshoot, reflections, Rising, Roy Thomson Hall, Ryerson, sculpture, St. Andrews Presbyterian Church, TIFF, uber5000, University Ave., Yonge Street, Zhang Huan

“Social norms has been reset to factory settings”

I’m not sure what the above words mean or imply but I do know that we’ve all been impacted by Covid in one way or another. The city seems to be moving along albeit more slowly than usual. Sections of the city have fared better than others. In fact, it would be very easy to portray segments of Toronto as being in trouble.

Here the road is closed to vehicles for Open Streets (the last Sunday of September).

We are missing events. All those things that I like to take pictures at and blog about – the parades, the street festivals, and even the protests. With more people staying at home, no tourists on the streets, and events going virtual, it’s a much quieter city.

below: This was the last weekend of TIFF and you wouldn’t know anything was happening.

below: In past years, King Street closes for TIFF activities. This year there was none of that – no crowds jostling for a look at a celebrity or two, no booths selling things.

below: These little “patios” have been carved out of some downtown streets to help restaurants stay open during these COVID days. It’s a great idea for the warmer months. Although the city now allows propane heaters on the street, I am not sure how many people are going to want to have dinner outside in December.

below: The Royal Alex Theatre is still set up for “Come From Away”

below: A nearby restaurant still has its St. Patricks Day green on display.

below: Roy Thomson Hall in the foreground with downtown buildings in the background, as seen from Metro Hall.

below: New public art on Adelaide… this is “Dreaming” by Jaume Plensa. She’s three storeys high and I wouldn’t be surprised if she is dreaming of the days when we didn’t need masks. How long until someone gives her a mask?

below: Reflections with security guard

below: The steeple of St. Andrews Presbyterian church

below: Mother and daughter cycling together

below: The cows are still in their pasture, unfazed by the changes around them.

below: The next two photos were taken while I was standing in among the tall black towers of the Toronto Dominion Centre. The first view is to the southwest towards the CN Tower.

below: The second view is to the northeast.

below: The Canada Permanent building on Bay street is getting a cleaning.

below: This is one of the Bank of Montreal buildings, also on Bay Street.

below: Window washers

below: Pearl Street, looking east. Old brick buildings in the foreground with their modern counterparts shining in the background.

below: The west end of Pearl Street.

below: I found a person!

below: Looking north up University Avenue

below: The Shangri-La hotel and Momofuko restaurant with it’s weird sculpture “Rising” by Zhang Huan at street level (also University Ave). Masses of “peace pigeons” cover the surface.

below: Looking the other way on University Ave, south past Richmond to Adelaide and beyond.

below: Preservation of a large brick facade on Adelaide.

below: Waiting for the lights to change

below: Under the heading of “somethings never change”, there are always photoshoots in front of Osgoode Hall. Presumably this photo or one similar can be found somewhere on instagram?

below: Arranging the veil.

below: With a the pigeon by the Eaton Centre.

below: Mr. Ryerson keeps changing colour. Apparently he was more red not that long ago. Rather than remove the red paint, he was “cleaned up” by painting him this shade of green. He probably doesn’t realize it but he’s become a controversial figure. He may have been one of the first to establish public schools but he also played a role in the creation of residential schools for the indigenous population. Because of the latter, there has been some people advocating for the removal of this statue.

statue of Egerton Ryerson at Ryerson University on Gould Street, painted green, with some red paint graffiti as well as red hands

This statue was unveiled in 1889. It stands in front of an ivy covered building that started its life as Toronto’s first teacher’s college (1847).

below: Queen Street West

below: This yellow birdie, at least in sticker form, may be on the verge of extinction. An Uber5000 creation that can also be found on several of his murals around the city.

As I write this, the number of Covid cases in Toronto (and all of Ontario) have gone back up. Although we were hopeful that we were wrong, was there ever any question that things would get worse before they got better? Are we more complacent? Maybe. But let’s hope that we are also wiser this time around.

Wynford and vicinity

Posted: April 20, 2020 in construction, locations, transportation, windows and walls
Tags: buildings, chair, construction, Crosstown, Crosstown Community, demolition, development, Don Mlls, IBM, lights, LRT, machinery, parking lot, railway

I’ve been keeping an eye on the old IBM building at the corner of Don Mills and Eglinton. It was built in 1951 as IBM’s Canadian manufacturing plant and head office.

It’s been empty for a long time but recently work has begun on the site.

The IBM complex sits on 60 acres and the whole site will be redeveloped in the coming months. The white tower in the background is also on the site, right beside the CPR tracks that mark the northern boundary.

below: A Canada goose struts near one of the entrances to the old IBM building that is being demolished.

below: 1954

an old black and white photo of the IBM building on Don Mills Road in 1954

photo credit – taken from ‘Urban Toronto’ online article about this development

below: Apparently the plan is to build a mix of residential and commercial buildings on the site ranging from 3 to 44 storeys. A new community centre and park are also included in the planned Crosstown Community.

In terms of construction and development, this intersection is very busy as it is also the location of the future Science Centre LRT station. It has been a mess for so long that I can’t remember how long it’s been. There are signs of progress starting to emerge from the chaos so perhaps there is hope for a 2021 opening of the Crosstown LRT.

below: The new bus bays on the northeast corner are starting to take shape.

below: More of the NE corner.

below: Looking across Eglinton towards the Mormon church and other buildings on the south east corner.

below: A sign of the times. Covid-19 dos and don’ts.

below: New tracks being laid where the LRT comes back to the surface east of Don Mills Road (looking east towards the DVP). The Science Centre station is underground even though the tracks on both the east and west side are above ground.

below: From the NE corner (black building is/was the Ontario Federation of Labour) looking south. All buildings are on the east side of Don Mills Road.

below: A sidewalk, temporary, lined with cones, along Eglinton.

There are other buildings being torn down. The building in the background is 1200 Eglinton Ave East. It was an office building with a parking structure beside it. This is the view from Wynford Drive.

The same building a few days later when I went back to check on the demolition’s progress. The parking structure is now just piles of rubble and more of the exterior walls of the other building are gone.

below: The large, almost empty, parking lot behind the Bell building on Wynford.

below: With a few exceptions, most of the buildings around Wynford are products of the 1960s and 1970s.

below: Another empty parking lot. This picture was taken on a Saturday afternoon which might explain the lack of cars but as I drive around the city I see lots of empty parking lots even during the work week. A sign of the times.

below: Looking across the Don Valley Parkway

below: CPR tracks behind Wynford.

below: Rusty metal spirals, tightly wound, found amongst the gravel along the train tracks.

below: Looking east along the tracks just before they cross the DVP. If you follow the tracks, they lead you to the CPR marshaling yard at McCowan and Sheppard. So, that’s where I went next…. (scroll down!)

a little part of Willowdale

Posted: March 21, 2020 in construction, locations, old buildings
Tags: buildings, demolition, development proposal, Dudley Court, offices, pizza pizza, Sheppard Ave East, stores, Willowdale

Another walking day, another part of the city to explore. Sometimes I find new places to wander around but the other day I went back to Sheppard Ave East to see what other changes are happening. This is a section of Sheppard Ave that is living in the shadow of Yonge Street developments. It’s an area of mixed residential and commercial.

below: Sheppard Ave East looking west towards Yonge Street from Willowdale Ave.

below: A smaller bungalow, and architectural “style” that was common along here.

below: Some of the bungalows are being replaced by much larger houses, especially in the side streets behind Sheppard.

below: More signs of the times, no kids playing outside in the playgrounds of the schools and day care centres.

below: A CTR rabbit trying to run away.

below: This front door with it’s clean and ornate door frame has always fascinated me.

below: 176 Sheppard Avenue East has been empty for a while. I found information about the development here on different websites. One of the sites stated that the new building would be ready to move into in 2019.

below: A vacant lot

below: This is the same vacant lot as there was nothing to prevent me from wandering in.

below: The front of Dudley Court at 166 Sheppard Ave East. I have driven past here a few times this year and I keep thinking that I should check it out before it disappears. The orange “tree protection” fence was a more recent addition. Maybe part of the reason why there is no development proposal sign here is that it’s been about 20 years since the owners started “negotiating” with the city about what was going to be built here.

below: The back of Dudley Court from the vacant lot mentioned above.

below: What surprised me is that there are actually 3 apartment buildings that are empty. The plywood is there to protect the trees that are between the apartments and a ditch. The “ditch” continues underground under Sheppard and then south through a small park towards the 401.

below: There is a pedestrian walkway on the west side that continues north a couple of blocks.

below: Sheppard Ave looking east

below: Sheppard Ave looking west. An evolution of sorts… at first there were small houses that became offices; now they are being torn down.

below: Some of the mid-sized buildings that were developed in the 1970s and 1980s are also “moving upward”. In this case, to 11 storeys with 55 residential units and lower floor retail. It is currently home to medical offices.

below: Once upon a time this was a Pizza Pizza. Then it was for sale. Next, it provided headquarters for an election campaign. And now? Possibly in limbo? All that I could find is a 2017 rejection from the city for a 10 storey development on this lot and the one adjacent (where The Beer Store is now). The official plan calls for lower buildings as you move away from Yonge Street. In the meantime you can call it an eyesore.

below: But not everything is ugly!

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There’s always something

Posted: May 29, 2019 in general Toronto, old buildings, people
Tags: buildings, College Park, Confederation Life building, Dundas Square, Dundas Street, fountain, Fran's, frog, mural, park, people, sculpture, Senator restaurant, signs, street, Victoria Street, water

Something new or something different.
And for sure, something’s changed.

below: Too cool for school. Dundas Square.

below: The north east corner of Victoria and Lombard (looking north on Victoria).

below: This building is on the north west corner of Victoria and Richmond. It is the Confederation Life building, constructed in 1892. According to Wikipedia, afire gutted the top floor of the building and destroyed the roof in June 1981 but the rest of the structure remained intact.

below: A 1912 picture of the Confederation Life Building. Photo source

below: Fran’s restaurant at the corner of Victoria and Shuter – a Toronto institution.

below: And just a bit farther north on Victoria is the Senator which is even older than Fran’s. That’s a lot of food!

below: Signs on Victoria Street including a marvelous old Green P Parking sign.

below: Protest poster with a message for Prime Minister Trudeau. Will you compensate us for the mercury crisis?

below: Breaking my habit of not photographing people sleeping on the streets – it was the large green frog pillow that made me chuckle and reach for my camera.

below: And speaking of frogs, a group of them have appeared at College Park. A group of frogs is called an army… but if these are actually toads then a group of toads is a knot. Hmm…. frogs prefer water while toads live on land. There are also differences in their eggs, tongues and teeth but the most noticeable difference is in their eyes. Frogs have round eyes that bulge out. Toads eyes are more oval and don’t bulge. Conclusion – these are frogs searching for water.

below: Looking north on Yonge street towards Alexander. The very tall building is at Yonge & Bloor.

below: More Yonge Street. Another juxtaposition of old and new; the opportunities for this kind of image are becoming commonplace. Also, I could probably take pictures on Yonge every day and still miss some of the changes.

below: Plaid, paw prints, and pink

below: One is happier than the others.

below: Dundas Street, just west of University Ave., looking towards Simcoe and St. Patrick streets.

below: North side of Dundas street, just west of Bay.

below: Who doesn’t like bacon? I prefer mine a bit crispier.

“Days go running and hiding
The weeks are going slippy and sliding
Years leave quicker every time they come”
from “When We Were Young” by Passenger

grominator and more

Posted: April 23, 2019 in alleys, graffiti and street art
Tags: alleys, buildings, CN Tower, dog, door, garage, graffiti, grominator, kuyaspirit, laneways, maple leaf, mural, Rei Misiri, snow, stencil, street art, winter, workmen

Every once in a while, but not as often as I should, I go through old files and folders of pictures that I have taken. Pictures that I have meant to use but never got around to it. Today I found a series of photos from mid-February, back when there was snow on the ground. In amongst them were some graffiti and street art shots from somewhere between Chinatown and Kensington and those are the ones that I chose to show you here.